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UN relief chief calls for action on violence against aid workersThe Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, today described the normalization of violence against aid workers as a “stain” that “we will not accept,” in remarks to journalists on World Humanitarian Day.Briefing the press corps at UN Headquarters remotely from the […]

Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oilThe Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government, saying the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.In her first public comments […]

At their heyday in global trade — between the 15th and 17th centuries — peppercorns were the bitcoin of their time. They were the oddest thing to be so outrageously expensive just because someone said so.When Alaric, the king of the Visigoths, laid sack to Rome in 410, he exacted a tribute from the Roman […]

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